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  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.osgi.framework.util;

 /**
  * An element of an <code>KeyedHashSet</code>. A KeyedElement privides the key which is used to hash
  * the elements in an <code>KeyedHashSet</code>.
  * @see KeyedHashSet
  * @since 3.2
  */
 // This class was moved from /org.eclipse.osgi/core/framework/org/eclipse/osgi/framework/internal/core/KeyedElement.java
 public interface KeyedElement {
     /**
      * Returns the hash code of the key
      * @return the hash code of the key
      */
     public int getKeyHashCode();

     /**
      * Compares this element with a specified element
      * @param other the element to compare with
      * @return returns true if the specified element equals this element
      */
     public boolean compare(KeyedElement other);

     /**
      * Returns the key for this element
      * @return the key for this element
      */
     public Object getKey();
 }

